A Pack To Be Named Later: 08/14

I have no idea what constitutes a "pack" on here, so I use the general rule of thumb that if I have to open it and I do not know ahead of time what is init, then it's a pack. Heck, even if I *did* know what was in it, I think it would still be a pack. basically, if it comes wrapped up and is collectible, then it's a pack, right?

I dunno. In any case, I saw this at Walmart for $0.50, so I grabbed it. Turns out, it was cut even further and only cost $0.25.

I am not sure just what to list as the make and model, as I have no idea what these are. According to the TINY print on the ball's wrapper, these are made by Treehouse Kids. I don't know what Zerboz is, but that also appears on the label, so I am including it.

Let's see what's inside:

Yeah, I have no idea. So, I Googled him. He is "Dardevil." I assume there is some significance to his particular position.

Well, there ya go. A tiny little rubber man in a tiny little plastic blue ball. Maybe one of you is getting much more out of this than I.

It's the dreaded 100 random cards pack from Fairfield. I find these card packs fun to rip especially hockey. With me being out of nowhere and not being in hockey area I find packs hard to rip especially pre-1990s and late 1990 to early 2000 stuff. With packs of these you can get bunch of random stuff with few gems here and there and stuff I never seen. I got two cards that aren't hockey related.

One random card from baseball and basketball. First one is 1992 Classic baseball featuring Mike Groppuso who made it to AAA. Second card is from 96-97 Score Board Shaq card which I never heard or seen. On to hockey....

88-89 Topps: Clint Malarchuk - One of reasons I enjoy ripping these as I get a card from late 80s. Topps fire slapshot into the net with this design.

89-90 O-Pee-Chee: Derek King

90-91 7th Inning Sketch: Jocelyn Martel - 7th Inning Sketch would produce cards of junior league hockey from 89-90 to 91-92. Martel spent one pro season and didn't play again except for two games in 96-97.

90-91 Topps: Tom Kurvers, Rob Murphy, Keith Brown

90-91 Bowman: Joe Nieuwendyk, Sylvain Turgeon, Kelly Chase, Ed Belfour, Ilkka Sinsalo, Paul Gillis, Larry Murphy, Geoff Smith, Glenn Anderso, Doug Bodger, Chris Govedaris - Got plenty of Bowman.

90-91 Pro Set: Doug Wilson, Alan May, Dave Andreychuk (All-Star), Todd Ewen, Mike Richter - the overproduced and error filled Pro Set cards. First pack of hockey cards I saw on sale at store.

90-91 Upper Deck: Paul Fenton, Jimmy Carson, Bob Carpenter, Guy Carbonneau, Geoff Courtnall, Shayne Corson, John Cullen (All-Star) - Upper Deck join the hockey foray along with Topps, Score, and Pro Set. Over 20 years later Upper Deck still remains while Score came back with Panini.

90-91 Score: John MacLean, Brian Bradley, Dino Ciccarelli, Darren Turcotte, Wayne Doucet, Shayne Stevenson - Score hockey debut as it produced cards til 97-98. It got reincarnated 2010-11 with the same design under Panini banner.

91-92 7th Inning Sketch: Jon Duval (WHL), Patrick Bisaillon (QMJHL) - final set 7th Inning Sketch produced with cards from two junior leagues WHL and QMJHL. Duval made it far to ECHL for two seasons while Bisaillon spent most of his career at QSCHL.

91-92 Pro Set: Mike Donnelly, Martin Lapointe

91-91 Pro Set Platinim: Ken Hodge - Pro Set version of glossy cards to compete with Topps Stadium Club

91-92 Parkhurst - another Pro Set produced set under Parkhurst name which produced the earliest hockey cards in Canada.

91-92 Score: Patrick Flatley

91-92 O-Pee-Chee Premier: Tom Barrasso

91-92 Topps Stadium Club: Perry Berezan

91-91 Upper Deck: Jiri Slegr, Doug Gilmore, Andrei Lomakin

92-93 Classic Prospects: Ed Ronan

92-93 Pinnacle: Dimitri Yushkevich, Todd Elik

92-93 Score: Per Djoso

92-93 Parkhurst: Ray Sheppard - last Parkhurst set produced under Pro Set before going bankrupt

92-93 Upper Deck: Mark Osborne, Jamie Leach

92-93 Topps: Jimmy Carson

93-94 Topps Stadium Club: Mark Tinordi

93-94 Classic Hockey Draft: Maxim Bets - played 3 games in NHL before spending much of his career in Russia

93-94 Topps Premier: Gary Leeman

93-94 Leaf: Jeff Brown

93-94 Upper Deck: Mats Sundin, Kent Manderville

93-94 Donruss: Jozef Stumpel, Sergei Zubov - Donruss hockey debut producing til 97-98.

94-95 Upper Deck SP: Paul Coffey

94-95 Fleer: Teemu Selanne - I will always say this. The 94-95 Fleer design looked great on hockey unlike the mess on baseball and basketball.

94-95 Flair: Steve Duchesne

94-95 Leaf: Slava Kozlov - shorten from Vyacheslav still playing to this day

95-96 Donruss: Todd Elik

95-96 Parkhurst: Dean Evason, Peter Forsberg - another hidden gems. I never seen this Parkhurst set. Research have me believe they were European released.